Hay barrack

A Rutenberg ( Dutch: Roedenberg or Hooiberg ) is a covered, but open on all sides for Erntestapelbau not threshed grain, straw or hay, which was common in the north-west German and Dutch Space. Archaeologically detectable the Rutenberg is in Europe since the Iron Age.

Method of construction

Rods mountains are usually built inside a courtyard. They consist of up to twelve vertical standing wooden posts ( Barg rods ) which are arranged in a circle around a uniform distance. Regional come Rods mountains before as a rectangular four-post buildings. The total height could be about 15 to 17 meters, the diameter up to about 7 meters. Between the posts a bottom plate is drawn into about 2 meters in height. In the space under the floor also agricultural implements could be stored or cattle are found.

In contrast to a Diemen an Rutenberg is equipped with a height adjustable roof that depending on overlapping amount could be adjusted by pegs or bolts.

In a Rutenberg either hay, straw or not threshed grain could be stored. The latter was stacked on the culm with the ear of corn inside. In this way, the crop could be protected and stored dry. The risk of self-ignition of the crop was compared with the reduced storage in a barn through the open design.

The first recorded description of a rod Mount dates from the first half of the 13th century from the Saxon Mirror of Eike von Repgow. The Oldenburg illuminated manuscript of the Sachsenspiegel of 1336 includes a description, a graphic representation of a rod Mountain. Also in the Czech Velislaus Bible from the mid-14th century is the illustration of a mountain to find rods.

In the archaeological record a Rutenberg is indistinguishable usually of a roofless Diemen. Since the blueprint of both types of harvest storage since the Iron Age was nearly constant, mountains or Diemen recent Rods can be used as reconstruction aid for archaeological findings. Prehistoric rods mountains, however, differ in the size of the modern buildings. On average, they are smaller and only have diameters between 4 and 6 meters. Also come mullion before in the Grundrisse, which presumably should support the base plate.

Dissemination

Archaeological rods are mountains known since the Iron Age and occur in rural settlements from Scandinavia, over Central to Eastern Europe. In modern times, the main distribution area of ​​the rods mountains is mainly the northwestern German and Dutch Space. But they also occur in the Alps. Until the early 20th century they were often in use, but are almost completely disappeared today. Immigrants brought this design to North America.

Etymology

The term Rutenberg consists of the expressions " rods " and " mountain". Tail points to the wooden posts that form the backbone. Berg derived from Barg, store a Low German word for mountains.

A courtyard, on which was such a Rutenberg, was " Barghof ", or variations also called " Barkhof ".